Person
Name	Knobelsdorff, Lieutenant general Wilhelm von (28.01.1752 - 19.04.1820)
	Prussian officer and diplomat. Envoy to Constantinople from 1790. Lieutenant Colonel in 1818. A first catalogue of Knobelsdorff's collection was published by D. Sestini in 1804. His collection entered the Münzkabinett Berlin in January 1823 according to Pinder. Later more coins were acquired from his family in April 1833 and 1856 (Acc. 1856/17922-17990; 17998-18148. Even more coins, temporarily a part of the Hermann Dannenberg collection, were given to the Münzkabinett later. Lit.: D. Sestini, Lettere VI (1804); Pinder (1851) pp. XXI-XXII, XXVI-XXVII; Friedländer - von Sallet ²(1877) p. 18, 23, 26.
Types	previous Owner
GND	https://d-nb.info/gnd/141642343
Wikipedia [de]	https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_von_Knobelsdorff_(General,_1752)
VIAF	https://viaf.org/viaf/121684148
Wikidata	https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9263822
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Person

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Knobelsdorff, Lieutenant general Wilhelm von (28.01.1752 - 19.04.1820)

Prussian officer and diplomat. Envoy to Constantinople from 1790.

Lieutenant Colonel in 1818.

A first catalogue of Knobelsdorff's collection was published by D. Sestini in 1804.

His collection entered the Münzkabinett Berlin in January 1823 according to Pinder. Later more coins were acquired from his family in April 1833 and 1856 (Acc. 1856/17922-17990; 17998-18148. Even more coins, temporarily a part of the Hermann Dannenberg collection, were given to the Münzkabinett later.

Lit.: D. Sestini, Lettere VI (1804); Pinder (1851) pp. XXI-XXII, XXVI-XXVII; Friedländer - von Sallet ²(1877) p. 18, 23, 26.

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previous Owner

GND

https://d-nb.info/gnd/141642343